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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>Cyber
Source is right- This topic is a heated controversy amongst sys admins. The
bottom line is that there is no 'right' way to partition your drive (assuming
that you leave enough room for everything.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>my
home system layout is like this-</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>/boot
- 100M</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>/ -
7G</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>1024
swap</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>/home
- rest of disk.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=163010414-10032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>I made
a separate home partition for 2 reasons- 1 is that I now have a partition that I
can keep safe while I reinstall my OS (which I do frequently for testing and
such). and 2 is that I can format the partition with different options as far as
block size, journaling options, and size reserved for root for performance
reasons.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=163010414-10032004>There's other reasons to have separate partitions-
</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>For
example- I don't mount the /boot partition by default- There's no real need. I
mount it to install a new kernel or mess with the boot loader
options.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>System
backups can be easier. At my workplace we do backups with dd and ssh and it
makes doing a whole partition easy.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>Also,
having certain data that doesn't change (say a partition with a large media
collection) can be mounted read only to keep it somewhat safer from accidental
deletion.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=163010414-10032004>Finally, some places have special needs as far as
logging- At work we have a 25G var partition for the tremendously huge apache
logs we generate.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=163010414-10032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>I hope
this clears some things up--</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=163010414-10032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=163010414-10032004>--Dennis</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=163010414-10032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
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class=163010414-10032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> TheCactusKid Cactus
[mailto:thecactuskid45@yahoo.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 10, 2004
8:34 AM<BR><B>To:</B> nflug@nflug.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: Types of
partitions<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=3><STRONG>Hi y'all,</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>I've got a question. Now I read that there's a
/boot, /root, /swap, /user/local & or /user, (don't really understand the
difference?) and /home. Are there any others I should know about in a typical
installation or is this it? What would be the difference between.... in the
line-up that is....from a Workstation and Server class install. (as far as
types of partitions) What would be the line-up of either? I know I'm not
setting up a server class system but for the heck of it what would be the
line-up? Thanks for all the help.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT
size=3>tHecActUsKid:)</FONT></STRONG></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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